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...Bush administration HIV prevention and foreign aid programs have had a lasting positive impact on African nations, said former Bush administration official Jendayi E. Frazer at an Institute of Politics forum last night. Frazer, formerly the leading architect of U.S. Africa policy as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2005 to 2009, called the initiatives she spearheaded “transformative” and said that the new administration should build on its predecessor’s success by increasing dialogue with African leaders to address the myriad health, economic, and political problems that plague the continent...
...Precisely above the situation met Obama in the Czech Republic a few weeks ago, which he visited as part of his world tour of U.S. allied countries. The Czech Republic maintains a highly ambiguous relationship with the United States, thanks in large part to the Bush administration’s missile shield plan that would position radar in Czech territory and expose it to backlash from Russia. Obama’s hosts, meanwhile, have been supporters neither of his ascendancy nor his policies. Mirek Topolanek, whose successor as prime minister will be named today, just fired off his last political...
...This is not to say that Obama is simply brownnosing his eastern European colleagues. When Klaus—an outspoken supporter and ally of George W. Bush, standing by his missile shield project against popular opinion—invited the American leader for dinner in Prague Castle, Obama wasn’t afraid to tell him that he had better plans. He knew where his priorities lay; dinner with Michelle at a top restaurant with a view of Prague was evidently a much more productive use of his time than appeasing the self-importance of a fellow president...
...last Democratic President, Bill Clinton, put into law an assault-weapons ban in 1994. President George W. Bush allowed that ban to expire, but last month Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, said the Administration wanted to reinstate Clinton's ban. "The gun culture is hypersensitive," says Miles Hall, an Oklahoma City gun-shop owner. "If someone sneezes in Washington, we hear it and get nervous. There's a lot of anxiety out there...
...vote being one example). Even in Iowa, last week's unanimous state supreme court decision would likely be overturned were it possible to put the issue to voters anytime soon. And with a federal judiciary - and especially the Supreme Court - dominated by conservative judges appointed by President George W. Bush, a national victory for marriage-equality advocates seems remote at best...